Your thoughts please as to what causes colon polyps

I do not know but I just read about ivermintin and Colin polys someone suggested the research on no the Robards. There is promising research and I saw Duke Universty did a small trial with a drug for Colon cancer 100percent cure rate google those two thoughrsv

Hi. I'm sorry you are going through this. I'm assuming that you have not had genetic testing for colon polyps. Some genetic colon cancer conditions show up later in life. Wishing you well and a speedy recovery.

Honestly if you had that many polyps, they should probably be testing you to see if you have any genetic disorders. That is a lot of polyps to have, very uncommon and unusual. When I was 38 I found out I had colon cancer, my brother had died at 33 of it and he was a year and a half older than me. When they found out I had cancer also, they did a genetic test and found out I had Lynch syndrome. My brother also had that, it causes colon cancer and other cancers, colon being the main cancer but there is many other genetic disorders that causes polyps and cancer in the colon at earlier ages. You don't sound like you're very old. I would definitely talk to your doctor about getting some genetic testing done. I have a mutation in my msh6 Gene, two mutations actually. They believe at least one of those mutations causes disease, and they are probably going to be classifying the other one as the same. There is so much they can tell now with genetic testing. That would be my recommendation to you because of all the polyps. If this were one or two or even a few then my thoughts would be different. Also, just to let you know when I had my procto-collectomy which is the complete removal of my large intestine and my rectum because of the cancer, the colonoscopy had shown seven polyps at that time, three of them were cancer but when they did the pathology on my entire colon I had cancer in multiple areas that they did not see on the colonoscopy! They told me it's cases like mine where they can't always trust a colonoscopy. So just stay on top of these colonoscopies. Get then done each year since you had so many polyps. And try to get genetic testing. Please! If you have children I would recommend that they try to get colonoscopies earlier also. I hope some of this information helps you! Good luck.
Angela

i believe genetics play a big role --- but i think you should look into that powder supplement --- that is a big one maybe thats why young people are getting polips ---- i would definetly look into that powder

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jef9990
Don't beat yourself up trying to find a cause or blame yourself! It may be genetic like FAP or MAP but it may also be a genetic factor that has not yet been discovered.
LikeMe! Two years ago, I had zero polyps in my colon. In Nov, there were at least 50 and the GI doc removed 25, allpre-cancerous. Four GI docs and a surgeon said I needed a total colectomy. I was not ready to hear that and had read that the pre-cancerous polyps could be removed endoscopically. So, I went to Mayo in MN in Feb for a second opinion and possible removal of the remaining polyps. When the endoscopist came out after my colonoscopy, he told me that he saw hundreds of small tubular polyps and sessile polyps that had grown to 25 and 30 mm during that 3 months. By the way, I was negative for the two known genes for colon polyps. My case has doctors at Mayo and Duke scratching their heads. They cannot explain it but my future was determined that day. I am scheduled for a subtotal colectomy on April 19. Interestingly, they can spare my sigmoid colon and rectum because there were no polyps found there. Of course, there is still the worry that one of those hundreds has turned to cancer. You may never know the why. Deal with it as best you can and get regular colonoscopies if you are one of the lucky ones who can have them removed endoscopically. L

I have Lynch syndrome that's a rare genetic disorder. I wonder if you could possibly have that? I also have a case for the doctor scratch their head because I have two mutations in my msh6 Gene and that's your genetics, it's your DNA. Both times I've had cancer, colon cancer and then I had small ball cancer recently they remove the tumor, and then they do testing on the tumor and it doesn't show any mutation in those geans, but they know that I do have mutations in those genes, and it even has Ambry, which is the genetics lab scratching their heads. There is some strange things that happen. They're trying to figure out why this is happening to me, when they know I have a mutation but every time I have a tumor removed it doesn't show the mutation in those genes, which is impossible. I have two oncologist because of this. One that specializes in genetic disorders and one regular oncologist. And they both say that my case is a complete mystery mystery but thankfully I have a doctor that is like Sherlock Hlmes. Haha. Good luck though I hope they figure it out!!. And by the way I had my complete colon removed, procto-colectomey because of cancer when I was 38. It actually went really well and I haven't had any problems since.

God bless you and may the Lord guide the hands of your surgeons and give you healing and comfort as you have your surgery done and recover in Jesus name amen